I'll admit, I cry at anything--I think only Bob the Builder is safe from my tears at this stage in my life.

Thanks for mentioning the Top 100 programme--I always enjoyed those for some reason when we had TV, perhaps for the insights and commentary of the presenters. But I found the same thing: whatever was most recently plonked into the national mindset often took over the top few slots.

And what about that classic British tearjerker (at least it was for me the first time I saw it as a young kid), Whistle Down the Wind, where a young girl mistakenly thinks that an escaped prisoner hiding in her father's barn is the resurrected Jesus Christ?

Hope: I read the Green Mile screenplay long before it came out as a film and was excited by it. The novel was originally published in weekly installments which was fun too. It's over-long, I think, but good and the first half rocks! :)

Kat: I'm not saying the notion wad deliberate - although with ET it's hard to avoid comparisons once you're over the first hurdle. You should see Green Mile really, it's a good story.

Margaret: I saw Ghost on the day it opened in Bangkok, no less. It was a memorable experience becuase the Thai audience laughed at all the places I wouldn't have. Demi Moore was so cute when she cried - if I were in a relationship with her, I would have to make her cry all the time. :)

Jim: Whistle Down the Wind marked the first time I ever saw a theatrical trailer for a film on TV. I liked it very much, though now I find the music as little intrusive. "Are you Gentle Jesus?

"Brian's Song" was actually a 1971 movie on television. It was the story of two Chicago Bears football players [our football, not yours] Brian Piccolo and Gayle Sayers. Before anyone did "Disease of the Week" movies, it was very moving because Piccolo has cancer...and you can imagine the rest. It was "unique" at that time because Piccolo was white and Sayers was black.

It moved me so much as a kid that I read Gayle Sayers autobiography "I Am Third". It came from a saying he liked, "God is first, my friends/family are second and I am third." Like it so much Mom had those three words engraved on a gold medallion for me for Christmas that year.

Jim: Thanks for that, I listened and enjoyed. I think my perception of the music in the film was that it was overused and recurred as a theme too often. I feel this about the Simon and Garfunkel songs in The Graduate too, good but they pop up too regularly in the film.

Also, I wonder if that youtube extract is actually from the original soundtrack, it sounds a little more 'produced' that the movie music I remember - it's been *such* a long time though.

Titus: You have encouraged my to see Kes again - next time it pops up I shall close the curtains and indulge.

Susan: I'm itching for Star Trek!! Gotta get this decorating finished first - the living room looks dynamite if I say so myself. :)

Glynis: A crafty marketer indeed! I went alone to the movies to see the Green Mile (as I often used to so) I enjoyed it a lot although it is a tad over-long, I think.

I cry easily over movies, but with Green Mile, I didn't really cry. Even ET was not a tearjerker for me. The movies in which I cried the most were: The Notebook (I cried a river in this movie), Love Story, Crossings, The Promise..all love stories..lol...

I bawled all the way through, "Being There". I know. It's a comedy, of sorts. What can I tell ya?

There was another tear-jerker on 1970s t.v. about a guy with cancer...what was it? The actor was John Savage, I think. Wait, I think it was called "Eric". It was a killer tear-jerker. Mark Hamill was in it too.

I cried at the movie "Awakenings" with Robin Williams. Went through a box of tissue on that one.

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